On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 09:42 -0500, Kevin H. Hobbs wrote: > On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 06:55 -0500, fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Same here...once I did the original yum update, it has worked > > automatically since then. > > > I updated yum-updatesd and yum before my last attempt to run > yum-updatesd. I don't know if that was before the 2007-Jan-15 update of > yum-updatesd. For me all it's done is leak a lot of memory, and I don't > know if it was the fault of yum-updatesd, but my rpm database has become > corrupted on each computer at least once. > > There is very little in common on the computers that I've tried > yum-updatesd on: x86 vs. x86_64, fresh install vs. upgraded for ever, > and so on. The only think that 's the same on them is that they both use > software RAID ( there's no reason that should mess up anything ). ---- issues of rpm database corruption and yum-updatesd service running are separate except for yum-updatesd expects you to have a working rpm database and failing that, I can see where yum-updatesd is not gonna be happy (though it still shouldn't leak memory). Indeed with FC-6 we have had rpm db corruption at the levels unseen since RHL 8.0 I would expect that an updated yum-updatesd on a system with a functioning rpm database should work as expected. Craig